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Title	:	Pinball, 1973 (The Rat #2)
Author	:	Haruki Murakami
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 215 pages
Published	:	1980 by Kodansha International Ltd.
Categories	:	Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature. Cultural. Japan

Pinball, 1973 (The Rat #2)

Haruki Murakami

Paperback | Pages: 215 pages

Rating: 3.54 | 10503 Users | 667 Reviews

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The plot centers on the narrator's brief but intense obsession with pinball, his life as a freelance translator, and his later efforts to reunite with the old pinball machine that he used to play. He describes living with a pair of identical unnamed female twins, who mysteriously appear in his apartment one morning, and disappear at the end of the book. Interspersed with the narrative are his memories of the Japanese student movement, and of his old girlfriend Naoko. The plot alternates between describing the life of narrator and that of his friend, The Rat.

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Original Title:	1973年のピンボール
ISBN:	4061860127 (ISBN13: 9784061860124)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	The Rat #2
Setting:	Japan

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(I read the Goossen translation.)Read Pinball, 1973, and enjoyed it more than his first, both four stars. Again, there was a scene reminding me of Bradbury - his electric light circus of Something Wicked This Way Comes. In Pinball it's a warehouse full of pinball machines all whirring to life with the throw of a switch. Also reminiscent of 1Q84 with the lone dog at the lonely distant rail station. Pinball is partly a story of despondency after the end of a relationship. Pinball, work, beer and

I love how it was an easy reading-- straight forward, no twist whatsoever. Narrator post-uni life and his pinball addiction. But why I think this is a lonely book? Every time I continue my read on the chapters I always feel down for no reasons. There's something about loneliness hiding itself in the fragment. Perhaps Rat's story, or maybe Mr Narrator himself. "My face and my soul passes someone else's on the street. Their eyes saw nothing, not a damn thing. I felt empty. Maybe I had nothing left

Buy as a used paperback on Amazon starting at $72 or read for free online as a PDF here: http://www.betz.lu/media/users/charel...I wouldn't recommend this as a good entry point if you've never read any of his other writing, but I'd definitely recommend it to established fans. It feels a bit directionless and floats around in a dreamlike way, but I enjoyed the dream. I think it's less like Norweigan Wood (I read somewhere that it was similar but to me it isn't at all) and more like Kafka on The

I'm really glad I decided to read this book after "Hear the Wind Sing." It's almost like watching a bird take flight for the first time, developing into something miraculous. This book is different from some of the later Murakami works I've read, but there is even more of what I've really come to get into than "Hear the Wind Sing." You can really see Murakami's style develop. I do note a beautiful, mournful note in this book. It penetrates and reverberates through you for a while afterward. A

So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish. Haruki Murakami, Pinball, 1973Like Murakami's first novel Hear the Wind Sing (The Rat, #1), 'Pinball, 1973' (The Rat, #2) contains many of those elements that would define Murakami's fiction in the future. In someways this novel is both a story of loneliness and a love story between the protagonist and a specific Pinball machine. 'Hear the Wind Sing' seems to show early signs of Norwegian Wood, but

'Pinball, 1973' is not a particularly engrossing novel. There are still the following good reasons to read it.1. It is short, simple and a quick-read.2. Its Murakami-ness. The novel itself is not as strong as his later novels, yet a flavor of familiar Murakami elements is present which grew and developed into his later work. The seeds which were planted here, blossomed into the novels which we love and respect. There is a beer-drinking, cigarette-smoking nameless narrator who is detached and

I read this after A Wild Sheep Chase and Dance Dance Dance. At the time, it was INCREDIBLY hard to find in English or French translation (as was the first of the series Hear the Wind Sing!) I finally found it in a PDF I believe and loved it. It has some of the same characters as the later books and - although early Murakami - has the stylistic idioms that became part and parcel to Murakami's writing later on. I believe this book and Hear the Wind Sing are now available in a single volume. I